In 2008 the nesting ground of the Large-billed Reed Warbler was discovered in this region. The Shola-Javaid were Maoist insurgents operating in this region, where Soviet forces built a road to Lake Zorkul. Soviet occupation of this region was intended to secure control of Vakhjir Davan Pass. An 1895 agreement with Abdur Rahman drew its boundaries in order to separate the disputed kingdoms of Roshan and Shignan from rebels against British rule in Chitral. In the 1980s Kirghiz refugees from this region were resettled in the Van area of eastern Turkey. It forms the easternmost part of (*) Badakhshan province, and marks the junction of the Pamir and Hindu Kush mountain ranges. The upper course of the Amu Darya is the northern border of, for 15 points, what corridor, the only part of Afghanista
In 2008 the nesting ground of the Large-billed Reed Warbler was discovered in this region. The Shola-Javaid were Maoist insurgents operating in this region, where Soviet forces built a road to Lake Zorkul. Soviet occupation of this region was intended to secure control of Vakhjir Davan Pass. An 1895 agreement with Abdur Rahman drew its boundaries in order to separate the disputed kingdoms of Roshan and Shignan from rebels against British rule in Chitral. In the 1980s Kirghiz refugees from this region were resettled in the Van area of eastern Turkey. It forms the easternmost part of (*) Badakhshan province, and marks the junction of the Pamir and Hindu Kush mountain ranges. The upper course of the Amu Darya is the northern border of, for 15 points, what corridor, the only part of Afghanistan that borders China?
In 2008 the nesting ground of the Large-billed Reed Warbler was discovered in this region.
{Wakhan} Corridor